![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
I have teh Facebook. No, I don't know what to do with it. I grant that it's better than myspace (not hard), but...can I make posts? What does it do? *pokes*
In other, less baffling developments, The Futility Closet. A small sampling of their wares:
Nowhere Man ("When [William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck] inherited the dukedom of Portland in 1854, he retired to his estate in Nottinghamshire, holed up in the west wing, and had all the other rooms painted pink. [...] He wouldn't go out, but he did go down, employing hundreds of workmen to create a vast underground complex with a library, an observatory, a billiards room and 15 miles of tunnels, one of which was wide enough to accommodate two carriages.")
A Polyhedral Mystery ("More than 100 of these objects have been found between England and Hungary [...]. The Romans likely made them in the second or third century, but strangely they appear in no pictures from that period and they're not mentioned in Roman literature.")
Murder at the Priory ("In 1876, London barrister Charles Bravo took three days to die of antimony poisoning but refused to say who had poisoned him or why.
An inquest determined it was a case of willful murder, but no one was ever arrested or charged. To this day, no one knows who killed him.")
In other, less baffling developments, The Futility Closet. A small sampling of their wares:
Nowhere Man ("When [William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck] inherited the dukedom of Portland in 1854, he retired to his estate in Nottinghamshire, holed up in the west wing, and had all the other rooms painted pink. [...] He wouldn't go out, but he did go down, employing hundreds of workmen to create a vast underground complex with a library, an observatory, a billiards room and 15 miles of tunnels, one of which was wide enough to accommodate two carriages.")
A Polyhedral Mystery ("More than 100 of these objects have been found between England and Hungary [...]. The Romans likely made them in the second or third century, but strangely they appear in no pictures from that period and they're not mentioned in Roman literature.")
Murder at the Priory ("In 1876, London barrister Charles Bravo took three days to die of antimony poisoning but refused to say who had poisoned him or why.
An inquest determined it was a case of willful murder, but no one was ever arrested or charged. To this day, no one knows who killed him.")
